News: conferences, events and seminars
This page contains details of conferences, events and seminars either organised and run by SLSA members or of interest to them.
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Latest events . . .
SLSA events
Reforming Legal and Policy Responses to Investigating and Prosecuting Sexual Violence, QUB: registration now open
Disability and Rights: The possibilities and limits of rights discourse under neoliberalism, online: registration now open
Law, Drugs, and the Moving Body, Manchester
Other events
Mission Sustainable: Ensuring Earth-Space Human Activities are Sustainable by Default, University of Surrey
Understanding Miscarriages of Justice at 25, Queen Mary University of London
Minority Languages in Courtrooms the United Kingdom and Ireland, online from University of Aberystwyth and Trinity College Dublin
ERC Advanced Grants Webinar, online from the British Academy
AcSS Annual Lecture given by Professor Mariana Mazzucato, online from the AcSS
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May
Annual McGill Graduate Law Conference: Anatomy of a Crisis
Dates: 8–9 May 2025
Venue: McGill Universeity, Montreal, Canada
See poster for details. For all enquires contact:
A New Direction in Intellectual Property Treaty-making? Winning against the odds for human rights, equity, and indigenous peoples
Dates: 8–9 May 2025
Venue: School of Law, University of Leeds
See website for details.
Journal of Environmental Law Workshop 2025: On 'Greenwashing'
Date: 9 May 2025
Venue: University of Bristol Law School
See website for details.
Who Were the Law-givers? A panel discussion
Date: 9 May 2025
Venue: Wolfson College, Oxford
See announcement for details.
Journal of Environmental Law Workshop 2025: On 'Greenwashing',
Date: 9 May 2025
Venue: University of Bristol
See website for details. Organised by the Centre for Environmental Law and Sustainability.
Mistreating Consent
Date: 12 May 2025
Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, London and online
See website for details.
Legal Workers Inquiry: Worker writing from across the sector in Britain – book launch
Date: 12 May 2025
Venue: Garden Court Chambers, London
Organised by the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context, QMUL and Notes from Below. Hosted by Garden Court Chambers Civil Liberties and Human Rights Law and Employment & Discrimination Law Teams. See website for details.
Indo-China Workshop on Environmental and Climate Law
Dates: 12–13 May 2025
Venue: online from Northumbria Law School
See website for details.
Slavery’s Long Goodbye: A Wilberforce Institute Lecture
Date: 14 May 2025
Venue: Wilberforce Institute, Kingston upon Hull
Speaker: Professor Chris Evans, University of Wales
See website for details.
Dysfunctional Governance: 'Crisis', 'scandal', 'tragedy', 'emergency'
Dates: 15–16 May 2025
Venue: Centre of Law and Society, Cardiff: call for abstracts
Submissions are invited for this interdisciplinary workshop. See announcement for details.
Birkbeck Law School Annual Law Lecture: 'Theatre of the Upside Down: Performative Chaos and the Law'
Date: 16 May 2025
Venue: Clore Lecture Theatre, Birkbeck University of London
Speaker: Professor Patricia Williams
See website for registration.
Land and Property Beyond the Centenary
Date: 16 May 2025
Venue: online
Organised by the Open University Legal Histories Cluster. The programme is now available and free registration is open. See website for details.
Shifting Dynamics in Medical Law: Thinking about movement
Date: 20 May 2025
Venue: online hosted by the Shifting Dynamics in Medical Law Network
Speakers: Dr Anna Macdonald and Prof Marie-Andrée Jacob
See website for details.
Project Fortitude: Mission complete?
Date: 20 May 2025
Venue: online from University of Sheffield Law School
See website for details.
Law and Society Association Graduate Student and Early Career Workshop
Date: 21 May 2025
Venue: Chicago, Illinois, USA
See website for details.
Mission Sustainable: Ensuring Earth-Space Human Activities are Sustainable by Default
Date: 21 May 2025
Venue: University of Surrey
See website for details.
Asser-CSHR Online Summer Programme 2025: ‘International Sport and Human Rights'
Dates: 21–23 and 26–28 May 2025
Venue: online from the TMC Asser Instituut, The Hague
See announcement for details. Organised by TMC Asser Instituut in collaboration with the Centre for Sport and Human Rights. Registrations are open and a limited number of scholarships are also available.
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
Dates: 22–25 May 2025
Venue: Chicago, Illinois, USA
See meeting details. Registration is now open.
Constitutional Supremacy in Southeast Asia: The Case of Malaysia
Date: 23 May 2025
Venue: online from the Global South Network
Guest Lecturer: the Right Honourable the Chief Justice of Malaysia, Tun Tengku Maimun binti Tuan Mat
See announcement for details.
Socio-Legal Annual Lecture by Professor Martti Koskenniemi
Date: 28 May 2025
Venue: Wolfson College, Oxford
See website for details.
Understanding Miscarriages of Justice at 25
Date: 28 May 2025
Venue: Queen Mary University of London
See programme for details.Registration is now open.
The Stories We Tell: Or why can’t we remember the Magdalene Laundries?
Date: 28 May 2025
Venue: Queen's University Belfast
Speaker: Dr Louise Brangan
See website for details.
Personal and Professional Relationships in the Organ Recipient’s Life, a lecture by Professor Leach Scully
Date: 29 May 2025
Venue: online from the University of Bristol
See website for details.
‘What’s Next for Feminism?’ LSExSWIP 2025 Conference in Feminist and Gender Theory papers
Dates: 29–30 May 2025
Venue: LSE, Houghton Street, London
See website for details.
June
Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: call for abstracts
Date: 2 June 2025
Venue: online from University of Derby
Registration is free. See announcement for details.
AcSS Annual Lecture given by Professor Mariana Mazzucato
Date: 3 June 2025
Venue: online from the Academy of Social Sciences
See announcement for details.
5th Annual UK Animal Law Conference
Dates: 4–5 June 2025
Venue: UK Centre for Animal Law and the Animals, Birmingham University
See website for details.
Surrogacy 'Reforms' and Future Reproductive Technologies
Date: 5 June 2025
Venue: University of Greenwich
See website for details.
Conference on Judicial Activism and Resistance in Eastern Europe and Beyond
Dates: 5–6 June 2025
Venue: Institut d'études européennes, Université libre de Bruxelles
See website for details.
Law and the Critique of Political Economy: 60th Anniversary of Reading Capital
Date: 6–7 June 2025
Venue: Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
See website for details.
PLP, Public Law and Technology Conference
Date: 9 June 2025
Venue: Fieldfisher London
See website for details.
Confronting the Housing Crisis: The bold steps needed to deliver affordable homes for all
Date: 9 June 2025
Venue: Prospect Magazine, London, and online
See website for details.
WG Hart Workshop 2025 Regulating the Global Movement of Care
Dates: 11–12 June 2025
Venue: IALS, Charles Clore House, Russell Square, London
See website and announcement for details.
Feminist Jurisprudence Discussion Group Annual Workshop
Date: 13 June 2025
Venue: St Hilda's College, Oxford
See announcement for details.
Legal Action Group Housing Law Conference
Date: 13 June 2025
Venue: BPP University, Holborn, London
See website for details.
Disability and Rights: The possibilities and limits of rights discourse under neoliberalism
Dates: 13–14 June 2025
Venue: online
See registration link for details and to register. This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition and the University of Leicester and organised by the SLSA Disability Law and Social Justice Stream and the Marxism and Disability Network.
Summer Academy for Feminist Legal Studies 2025
Dates: 13–15 June 2025
Venue: University of Hamburg, Germany
See announcement for details.
Summer School: A Terra Usque ad Astra – Heritage, human rights and space law
Dates: 16–22 June 2025
Venue: University of Strathclyde, Glasgow: call for participants
See website for details. Closing date: 18 May 2025.
Rethinking Gender, Sexuality, and the Law: A Conversation between Feminist Scholars in Postcolonial South Asia and the UK
Dates: 16–17 June 2025
Venue: Centre of Law and Society, Cardiff University
See announcement for details.
ERC Advanced Grants Webinar
Date: 17 June 2025
Venue: online from the British Academy
This webinar for UK-based researchers in the humanities and social sciences interested in applying for European Research Council (ERC) grants. See webpage for details.
Reforming Legal and Policy Responses to Investigating and Prosecuting Sexual Violence
Dates: 19–20 June 2025
Venue: Queen's University Belfast
Registration for this in-peron event is now open: closing date 9 June 2025. See website for details. This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition.
UK Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Health Conference: Opportunities, challenges and the vulnerabilities of health throughout the life course
Dates: 19–20 June 2025
Venue: University of Manchester
Speakers: Professor Amy T. Campbell, University of Illinois; Dr Nigel Stobbs, Queensland University of Technology; Dr John Stannard, Queen’s University Belfast
See announcement for details.
British Academy Summer Showcase
Dates: 20–21 June 2025
Venue: British Academy, London
See website for details.
Valuation, Space and Power ECR Workshop
Dates: 23–24 June 2025
Venue: University of Sheffield
See announcement for details.
New Perspectives on Law and Literature
Date: 26 June 2025
Venue: Birkbeck Law School
See website for details.
Minority Languages in Courtrooms the United Kingdom and Ireland
Date: 27 June 2025
Venue: online from University of Aberystwyth and Trinity College Dublin
See website for details.
'Law in Context': Early Career Workshop
Dates: 26–27 June 2025
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
See poster and announcement for details.
The Legal World of Family Migration: call for papers
Date: 27 June 2025
Venue: online from the Universities of Exeter and Bristol
See announcement for details. Call closes: 9 May 2025.
Summer School: Introduction to Experimental Methods in Social Sciences: Surveys, Laboratory and Field Experiments
Dates: 30 June–4 July 2025
Venue: NCRM, University of Southampton
See website for details.
July
Workshop: In the Name of National Security: The fragility of human rights
Date: 3 July 2025
Venue: Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, Madrid
Co-hosted by the Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. See announcement for details.
The Impeachment of Warren Hastings: The First Governor General of India
Dates: 3–4 July 2025
Venue: University of Worcester
Speaker: Dame Linda Colley
See website for details.
1885 and its Long Shadow: Sexual offences in historical context: call for papers
Date: 11 July 2025
Venue: online from the Open University
See website for details. Hosted by The Open University Legal Histories Research Cluster and the British Sociological Association Global Histories and Sociology Study Group. Closing date: 16 May 2025.
Behind Closed Books: Money Laundering in UK Insolvency Proceedings
Date: 17 July 2025
Venue: School of Law, University of Leeds
See announcement for details.
2025 Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute: call for applications
Dates: 28 July–8 August 2025
Venue: Jesus College, Oxford
See website for details.
August
Law, Drugs, and the Moving Body
Date: 25 August 2025
Venue: University of Manchester
See website for details. This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition.
Nordic Law and Gender Conference 2025: Against all odds: call for papers extended
Dates: 28–29 August 2025
Venue: University of Copenhagen
See website for details. Call closes: 15 May 2025.
September
Critical Legal Conference 2025: 'Surf ‘n’ Turf: Critical Laws of the Land and Sea
Dates: 4–6 September 2025
Venue: University of Exeter
See announcement and website for details.
Responsible AI in Health Care
Dates: 10–12 September 2025
Venue: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
See announcement for details.
The Vulnerable Accused in the Criminal Justice System: call for papers
Dates: 10–11 September 2025
Venue: Cardiff University
See announcement for details. Call closes: 2 June 2025.
25 Years of the Human Rights Act
Date: 18 September 2025
Venue: Liberty Building, University of Leeds
See website for details.
October
SAFI Annual Conference: call for papers
Date: 9–10 October 2025
Venue: University of Amsterdam
Theme: Reimagining Justice
See announcement and website for details. Call closes: 15 May 2025.
November
From Binary to Bench: Empowering equal opportunities and AI literacy in global legal education
Date: 5 November 2025
Venue: University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus, and online
See website of details. This is an SLS-funder symposium organised by Dr Melanie Stockton-Brown and Dr Basak Bak.
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December
Resistance and Agency in the Digital Society: Beyond Literacy, transparency, and risk assessment: call for papers
Date: 15 December 2025
Venue: University of Lausanne, Switzerland
See announcement for details of the cfp. This event is the Law and Society Initiative (IDES) Annual Conference. Call closes: 20 June 2025.
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